Alvarez has a pending case in Marathon County Circuit Court, where he is charged with second-degree sexual assault, false imprisonment, battery and strangulation and suffocation, according to online court records. He has pleaded not guilty.

Those charges were filed after a woman passed a note to a bank teller asking for help. The woman told investigators she had a relationship with Alvarez and he had abused her and threatened her with a gun, the criminal complaint said.